766 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT, 1907-1908. 



1,236 letters and 51 packages sent out on business pertaining 

 to the work of the office. The force has also made forty-two 

 inspections of nurseries, and forty-two certificates have been 

 granted. Examinations have been made of forty orchards, 

 gardens, etc., and one hundred and forty-seven samples of insects 

 have been received for identification. 



Collection and Equipment. 



The collection of insects has been considerably increased during 

 the past two years by exchanges and material collected within 

 the state. Mention should here be made and thanks expressed 

 to Mr. Charles R. Ely of Washington, D. C, who has enriched 

 our collection with material collected at East River, Conn., supply- 

 ing us with over sixty species, many of which were not in our 

 collection, while some of them had not been recorded from the 

 state. Also to Mr. F. A. Merrick of New Brighton, Pa., who 

 supplied about one hundred and forty-seven species, one hundred 

 and fifteen of which were new to the collection; Mr. C.*A. Frost, 

 of South Framingham, Mass., forty-eight species, forty-two of 

 which were new to the collection ; A. C. Samson of Boston, Mass., 

 thirty-five species, fourteen new to the collection. Exchanges 

 were effected with these persons, but in each case the station col- 

 lection benefited by receiving many more species and specimens 

 than we were able to give in return, the collectors expressing a 

 desire to place their duplicates where they would be of use even 

 though they did not receive specimen for specimen in return. 

 This attitude is or should be the proper one for the scientist. Last 

 but not least, thanks are due to Professor H. W. Foote of Yale 

 University, who has for three seasons collected moths during 

 July and August at Pemaquid Point, Me., and given them to the 

 station collection. 



The Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) have now all been 

 transferred to larger Schmitt boxes (ii>^ x 16 in. inside), which 

 were made to order of the proper size to fill the space occupied 

 by two ordinary boxes with the partition between them. Fifty- 

 six of these boxes are now filled with butterflies and moths. 

 Fourteen metal cases and several wooden cases are used to hold 

 the collection, which now contains about 4,000 named species 

 and over 26,000 specimens. 



